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Welcome to The Restisted Politics with me, Alistair Campbell, and with me, Rory Stewart.

Now, we're going to do lots on the Middle East, obviously. Not just what's happening there,

but also what's happening in the UK politics around it. We're speaking shortly before

here, Starmer's going to make a big speech on the whole issue. And then, Rory, I know you want

to talk about AI ahead of Rishi Soonak's Bletchley Summit, which I hear Elon Musk among

others will be appearing. But I think it's sticking on the kind of domestic policy front as well.

I know that's global, but it's about Rishi Soonak. I'd also like to talk about the environment.

But shall we start with the Middle East? Absolutely. So just as a very, very brief reminder

of where we are now, Israel has begun its ground operations, not a huge scale.

So it's more tentative than people were expecting, but tanks have crossed the border,

ground forces are beginning to engage. And so we're getting now into the phase in Gaza,

which many people have been warning about and worrying about, which is the beginning of a

ground war, with all that that means, which is street fighting, people being able to use

rubble as cover, this amazing tunnel network, which is sometimes described as being larger than

the London underground, which allows Hamas fighters both to hide from attacks, but also to be

able to come up behind Israeli troops as their advance. And you'll see any number of statements

by different types of military analysts talking about Mosul or Fallujah or even Stalin grad about

the problems of these kinds of urban warfare. So look, I think we're into that phase. I mean,

it's only three weeks really, but we're already into that phase that we saw in the war in Ukraine,

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